Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
Hotel Information: Couples, families, and golfers fill this Kohala Coast beachfront resort.
This hotel's open-air atrium reception area and grounds are built around ponds filled with tropical fish, small sharks, and sea turtles. Historic petroglyphs are on site.
Hawaiian music and hula is performed nightly in the lobby, and both casual and fine-dining restaurants offer panoramic ocean views.
Amenity highlights: Two golf courses, six tennis courts, and a swimming pool are scattered throughout the grounds on the Kohala Coast.
The Mauna Lani Spa offers dozens of massage treatments in six indoor treatment rooms and nine thatched-roof outdoor huts.
A year-round children's camp includes a varying schedule of activities such as learning Hawaiian crafts and games.
Insider tip: Locals join guests by the hundreds on the Saturday before the full moon each month for an evening of Hawaiian storytelling, music, and dance beginning at twilight.
Guests can bring their own picnic dinners or order a dinner for two through the hotel's catering department.
This six-story resort has 350 guestrooms, including 30 privately owned villas. Bathrooms have polished Jerusalem stone floors, double vanities, and built-in, teakwood furnishings. All have a private lanai furnished with a table, two chairs, and lounge chairs.
Toiletries include the hotel's own spa products. Bathrooms also furnish bathrobes and slippers, along with scales. A compact refrigerator (stocked upon request; surcharge) is also available in the rooms.
Among the additional amenities are high-speed Internet access (surcharge), pay movies, video games (surcharge), and coffeemakers with Kona coffee.
